''Ivovicia'' is an extinct
genus
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of
proarticulates. This
monotypic genus
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has only one
species
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: ''Ivovicia rugulosa''. The genus is named after the Ivovik creek, near the location where the specimen was found.
Etymology
The generic name, ''Ivovicia'', refers to the Ivovik Creek, which is located near the
type locality of ''I. rugulosa''. The specific name, ''rugulosa'', is from Latin ''rugulosus'', meaning 'finely wrinkled'.
[ Therefore, the scientific name ''Iovicia rugulosa'' can roughly be translated as 'finely wrinkled of Ivovik Creek'.
]
References
Notes
Budd, Graham E.; Jensen, Sören. The origin of the animals and a ‘Savannah’ hypothesis for early bilaterian evolution. Biological Reviews November 2015.
Freeman, Gary. The rise of bilaterians. Historical Biology 2009 03.
Sokolov, B.S.. The chronostratigraphic space of the lithosphere and the Vendian as a geohistorical subdivision of the Neoproterozoic. Russian Geology and Geophysics October 2011.
Grazhdankin, Dmitriy. Patterns of Evolution of the Ediacaran Soft-Bodied Biota. Journal of Paleontology 2014 03.
Retallack, Gregory J.. Ediacaran fossils in thin-section. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 2016 10.
Proarticulata
Ediacaran life
Prehistoric bilaterian genera
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